I have thus stated to you as nearly as I can the substance of what passed. Lord Holland drove a very hard bargain, and endeavoured to obtain better terms from other publishers, but he could not, and eventually Mr. MY DEAR FRIEND, How deeply I feel obliged and gratified by your confidential communication! Another, and the last of Lockhart's letters on this subject, may be given: _Mr. That to the former edition I have continually found inadequate and faulty. The Baron says that the insertion of the obnoxious passages is fatal to all his combinations; that he has devoted two months of the most valuable based business fromhome home home work work to this affair, and that he must hold me personally responsible for the immediate fulfilment of my agreement, viz. When Constable work at home Edinburgh sent him "a miscellaneous order of books from London," he replied: "Country orders are a branch of business which I have ever totally declined as incompatible with my more serious plans as a publisher.
He fancied, alas, that he could build her universe over again out of the politics of old Rome and the divinity of the schools!